If they make me use ground mounts again to level I'll spit on Blizzard (again) and their pointless decisions. I've spent over 10k gold so far to allow usage of my flying mount throughout the world. I leveled pre-BC, BC and LK on a ground mount and you know what? If you enjoy wasting your time running around then go play pre-BC on a private server and amuse yourself in self-torture.

I was supposed to "immerse" myself in the world, although I'll never understand the correlation between riding at 220% speed and immersion, when I could fly at 451% speed a little above ground level and still "immerse" myself in the repetitive pandaren universe.

So no, I wouldn't mind 10 more levels if they allowed flying mounts during the process.

I was supposed to "immerse" myself in the world, although I'll never understand the correlation between riding at 220% speed and immersion, when I could fly at 451% speed a little above ground level and still "immerse" myself in the repetitive pandaren universe.

It wasn't so much for immersion but for access to more world PvP. As you will notice there's no flying mounts in PvP.

PvPers were complaining that flight destroyed PvP (my alts would like a word with such players in how completely wrong that idea is), and Blizzard in an effort to make PvP more accessible in the game, complied.

Are they getting more ganks in? Probably. But the people who really suffer is the general population.

I didn't agree with that "immersion" idea in RIFT when this debate was going on, and I'll disagree with Blizzard that this helps immersion...it doesn't. You can be as immersed in the environment 200ft above ground as on the ground. And as long as gryphons exist it truly is a pointless belief it adds more immersion.

From the #1 Cata review on Amazon.com: "Blizzard's greatest misstep was blaming players instead of admitting their mistakes.
They've convinced half of the population that the other half are unskilled whiners, causing a permanent rift in the community."

I wasn't referring to a "set ending level", I'm referring to the engine and it's limits. EQ2's is set to 200. So WoW has some engine limit, too. No engine can handle more than it's designed for unless it's upgraded...and that in gaming is a whole new platform (a WoW 2.0).

Utter BS.. almost all the ´private servers´ go up to like level 500. You think the people who programmed private servers for WOW have more skill then the actual programers at WOW?

the engine was not programmed to be limited at 100. The devs have already said this directly. The only discussion there really is about ´levels´ has to do with pyschology (omg, I am new, and everyone is 100 levels ahead of me) or marketing ( eh.. is going from 105 to 110 worth it). The devs have already directly said there are no tech hurdles.. so you keep assuming and repeating crap you made up.

---------- Post added 2012-11-09 at 04:27 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Kevyne-Shandris

Nor you, as the engine itself was not upgraded. You can ADD code for ADDITIONAL features and change code, but the engine itself is the same...right down to the original 16 slot bag.

Do you understand what a game engine is even?

Developers do not rewrite the game engine until they have a replacement for the entire platform. It takes too much work/time/money/testing to do otherwise.

But show me anywhere in the game éngine´ that it is hardcoded to end at 100? Again, the dev quotes have already been provided where they said there are NO TECHNICAL ISSUES.. preventing them from going over 100.

You keep repeating this ´but the engine is set to 100´.. It is not. The devs have said it, private servers have shown it.. it is NOT TRUE. you keep stating something very stupid as fact when there is no proof for it, and a lot against it..

---------- Post added 2012-11-09 at 04:40 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Kevyne-Shandris

It wasn't so much for immersion but for access to more world PvP. As you will notice there's no flying mounts in PvP.

PvPers were complaining that flight destroyed PvP (my alts would like a word with such players in how completely wrong that idea is), and Blizzard in an effort to make PvP more accessible in the game, complied.

Are they getting more ganks in? Probably. But the people who really suffer is the general population.

I didn't agree with that "immersion" idea in RIFT when this debate was going on, and I'll disagree with Blizzard that this helps immersion...it doesn't. You can be as immersed in the environment 200ft above ground as on the ground. And as long as gryphons exist it truly is a pointless belief it adds more immersion.

I disagree.. when you fly from point A to point B you don´t see all the little details of the map. I am not saying they are important.. but the shrines, rare item spawns and just the ´world´ is lost a lot if you fly from A to B.

But in reality, I never understood why people wanted to fly while questing. Name one quest while leveling where flying would make things significantly faster. Some of the dailies (cooking) etc are far away.. but with questing the first few zones, the objectives are basically right in front of you.. most of the quest hubs even have free transport to the next quest hub. People greatly overstate the amount of time they would save by flying in the early zones.

I don't understand what makes the number 100 so magical...? It's a number like any other? =/

I doubt they will do it but I would like it because it would make soloing old content even easier, each level above makes a huge difference.

I never understand either.
Why people insist that wow must stop at 100?
in classic the level cap was 60 not 50 or 10 or any other "magical" number.

---------- Post added 2012-11-09 at 05:25 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Kevyne-Shandris

Nor you, as the engine itself was not upgraded. You can ADD code for ADDITIONAL features and change code, but the engine itself is the same...right down to the original 16 slot bag.

Do you understand what a game engine is even?

Developers do not rewrite the game engine until they have a replacement for the entire platform. It takes too much work/time/money/testing to do otherwise.

Engine can consistently be update. I don't know if the 16 slot bag is a engine limit. I thought it is because that if they allow people to move that bag, it is possible to a player to have no bag and no way to acquire new bags.

Now your second statement is pure BS.

Developers do not rewrite the game engine until they have a replacement for the entire platform. It takes too much work/time/money/testing to do otherwise.

They is completely not true. The way most game developer make game is use something akin to the iterative model not something like a waterfall model.
They start with a prototype and continue to improve as time go on.

On the subject of level cap, I would assume the data are stored in a database, because you know, it is the standard way to store data.
If then I see no reason for the level cap can not go over 100. One of the point of database it to provide an abstraction of the data no bonded by the actually hardware level of storing the data.
Heck I will do it for you.
ALTER TABLE Character MODIFY level INT(3);

Oh Jesus why we have turned this subject that can even be interesting in another of the same stale old discussion? if you want to discuss this things use PMs and don't derails the thread. (and I do not care about who started it really)